Measuring-scoop.



PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

F S BISHOP MEASURING SCOOP.

Patented November 22, 1904.

PATENT OEEIQE.

FRANK S. BISHOP, OF (iRlSlVOLD, lOlVA.

MEASURING-SCOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,326, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed February 16, 1904. Serial No. 193,803. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK S. BISHOP, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Griswold, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Measuring- Scoop, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a measuring-scoop of simple, durable, and inexpensive construction in which the capacity of the scoop can be easily and readily regulated from the exterior of the scoop.

A further object is to provide a device of this class in which the working parts are covered and kept from the dirt.

A further object is to provide a measuring device in which there is a movable partition which is capable of adjustment from the exterior of the device and'which can be maintained in any position in its limit of movement.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device where by the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows in perspective the complete device. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the lower portion of the scoop with the bottom removed to show the rim which holds the bottom in position, and Fig. at is a detail view of the lower end of the device with the bottom removed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference-numeral 10 to indicate the body portion of the scoop, which may be made of any desirable material and in any desirable shape, the preferable form, however, being cylindrical. This body portion has the handle 11 attached to its exterior. Slidingly mounted on the interior of the body portion is the partition 12, having the flange 13 extending at right angles to its body portion, so that as the partition is moved on the interior of the body portion 10 the partition will be prevented from tilting. Firmly attached to the under side of the partition 12 is a nut-retaining member 14, which is so con structed that a nutmay be placed in its lower portion in such a way that the outside of the nut will engage the inside of said lower portion, and the nut will be prevented from either lateral or vertical movement. The other retaining member let comprises two sides 14, which are attached to the movable partition 12 at its central portion and depending from it. Extending outwardly from the lower ends of each of the sides 14 and at right angles to them is a projection 14". Extending downwardly and at right angles to each of the projections l i is the projection 14:. Connecting the lower ends of the projections 14 with each other is the nut-supporting bar 145 having an opening in its central portion beneath the opening let, formed between the sides ii. The lower portion, which is formed by the projections 14" and 14 and the nut-supporting member liz is so constructed that a nut can be slipped in between the parts 14, so that it will rest upon the nut-supporting member 14:, so that the opening in the nut will be directly in line with the opening let and the opening in the nut-supporting bar 14:. hen the bolt 17, hereinafter described, is passed through the opening in the nut-supporting bar 14 and through the screw-threaded opening in the nut 16, hereinafter described, the nut willbe retained in position against lateral movement by the bolt 17', and the bolt will be prevented from vertical movement by the projections l i" and the nut-supporting bar 14. The upper portion of the nut-retaining member is so arranged that the upper portion of the bolt can enter between the sides of said upper portion.

Attached to the extreme lower end and on the interior of the body portion 10 is the boltsupporting bar 15, having an opening at its central portion designed to admit a bolt through it. Mounted in the lower portion of the nut-retaining member lei is the nut 16. Extending through the opening in the boltsupporting bar 15 and into the nut 16 is the bolt 17', having the screw-head 18 at its lower end, said screw-head being in engagement with the lower surface of the bolt-supporting bar 15. Attached to the bolt 17 and on that portion of it which is immediately inside of the bolt-supporting bar 15 and in engagement with said bolt-supporting bar is the lug 19, designed to maintain the bolt against downward movement. It will beeasily seen that as the bolt is turned in one direction the partition will be drawn downwardly by the screwthreads on the bolt 17 acting on the nut 16. In turning the bolt in the opposite direction the partition 12 will be raised, so that by simply turning the bolt in the desired direction the partition 12 can be easily and readily adjusted. At the lower extremity of one side of the body portion 10 said body portion is bent outwardly to form a slight flange 20, this flange being of a maximum size on one side of the body portion and diminishing as it approaches the other side of the body portion, so that on the opposite side of the body portion from that where the flange is of a maximum size there is no flange.

Attached to the lower end of the body portion 10 and designed to be detachably connected therewith is the bottom 21, designed to be maintained in position relative to the body portion 10 by means of the flange 20 and the flange 22, which is on the bottom 21. The flanges 20 and 22 are so arranged that the bottom 21 can be slipped to position, and then by giving this bottom a quarter-turn the bottom is firmly locked to the body portion 10, and yet it can be easily detached therefrom when it is desired to have access to the working parts of the device, provided they should get out of voperation. In the bottom 21 is a circular opening 23, designed to admit the head of the bolt 17, so that this bolt can be turned without removing said bottom.

In practical use the operator weighs out a certain predetermined amount of coffee in his scaleas,- for instance, a poundthen pours the coffee from the scales-scoop into the body portion 10, and he adjusts the partition by turning the bolt 17 until the pound of coffee exactly fills the space in the body portion 10 above the partition, so that the coffee is perfectly level across the top of the measuring scoop. This absolutely determines the weight of the coffee by measure, and after it has once been tested in this way the operator simply uses the scoop' for measuring his coffee. He simply has to dip into the coffee and then withdraw a straight edge across the upper portion of the body 10 or level thecoflee in some other desirable way. This provides for accurately measuring the amount of coffee in the scoop and obviates the necessity of weighing after the capacity of my scoop has been determined.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1."A measuring-scoop, comprising a body portion, a movable partition in said body portion, a nut-retaining member attached to the under portion of said partition, a nut mounted in said nut-retaining member, a rotatablymounted bolt designed to coact with said nut and said nut-retaining member to adjust the partition, a bolt-supporting bar attached to said body portion in which said bolt is rotatably mounted, and a detachably-mounted bottom having an opening in its central portion designed to admit the head of the bolt, for the purposes stated.

2. A measuring-scoop comprising a body portion, a movable partition in the body portion, a nut-retaining member attached to the under surface of the partition so constructed as to form an opening at its lower end to receive a nut and prevent said nut from lateral or vertical movement, a nut mounted in the lower portion of the nut-retaining member, a bolt designed to enter the nut in the nut-retaining member, a bottom for the scoop having an opening extending through it designed to receive the head of the bolt, a bolt-supporting bar extending across the scoop immediately above the bottom.

3. A measuring-scoop comprising a body portion, a movable partition in the body portion, a bottom for the body portion having an opening therein designed to receive the head of the bolt, a bolt-supporting bar extending across the inside of the bottom and attached to the body portion, a bolt rotatably mounted in the bolt supporting bar and operatively connected with the said partition, for the purposes stated.

4. A measuring-scoop comprising a body portion, a movable partition in the body portion, a bottom for the body portion having an opening therein designed to receive the head of the bolt, a bolt-supporting bar extending across the inside of the bottom and attached to the body portion, a bolt rotatably mounted in the bolt-supporting bar and operatively connected with the said partition, a nut mounted on said bolt, means for holding the nut in position relative to the partition, for the purposes stated.

5. A measuring-scoop comprising a body portion, a movable partition in the body portion, a bottom detachably connected with the body portion having an opening therein designed to receive the head of the bolt, a boltsupporting bar extending across the inside of the bottom and attached to the body portion, a bolt rotatably mounted in the bolt-supporting bar and operatively connected with the said partition, for the purposes stated.

6. A measuring-scoop comprising a body portion, a movable partition in the body portion, a bottom detachably connected with the body portion having an opening therein designed to receive the head of the bolt, a boltsupporting bar extending across the inside of the bottom and attached to the body portion, a bolt rotatably mounted in the bolt-supporting bar and operatively connected with the bolt and attached to the partition in such :1 I0 way that as the bolt is rotated between the bottom portion and the partition, the partition will be adjusted in the body portion.

FRANK S. BISHOP.

J. H. ALEXANDER.

\Vitnesses:

H. M. RINIG. 

